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A review by rpmirabella
Narrow Rooms by James Purdy
5.0
DEAR GOD!!! How to even talk about this novel!? It might be my favorite James Purdy. Just when you think it couldn't get crazier, it tops what came before. I'll talk about it later. I need a glass of water.
2nd reading:
Even MORE transgressive than I remember, and EVEN MORE SO NOW, somehow. Purdy was not concerned with respectability, was not interested in being a good queer, writing positive gay representation. He was interested in mining the depths of the obsessive souls of desperate people, caught up in their little desires and petty grievances, that in his world are EVERYTHING.
2nd reading:
Even MORE transgressive than I remember, and EVEN MORE SO NOW, somehow. Purdy was not concerned with respectability, was not interested in being a good queer, writing positive gay representation. He was interested in mining the depths of the obsessive souls of desperate people, caught up in their little desires and petty grievances, that in his world are EVERYTHING.